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the senator thinks. "It is claimed," 

 he writes, "by the officials, that it 

 would be necessary, in order to get 

 the water into the ground, to make a 

 complete system of ditches, to the 

 same extent that would be necessary 

 in any irrigation project. If this ex- 

 pense had to be paid by the ones who 

 owned the land, it would at once 

 bring up the difficulty that would be 

 hard to overcome. In order to make 

 it a practical proposition, all of the 

 farmers who would be benefited by it 

 would have to pay in proportion to 

 their acreage. This is the plan of the 

 reclamation service. I do not believe 

 this plan would work, and if we would 

 carry it out it will have to be modified 

 in order to lessen the expenses, be- 

 cause it would require the consent of 

 all the people in order to make it at 

 all feasible." 



Kansas 



The Arkansas Valley Irrigation 

 company ditch has been sold to H. E. 

 Lindas of Great Bend, president of 

 the Arkansas Valley Telephone com- 

 pany, according to the Dodge City 

 Globe. It is understood trre purchase 

 price is $150,000. It is not known in 

 Dodge City what Dr. Lindas' plans 

 for the ditch are, beyond the fact that 

 he plans to start this spring to make 

 improvements that will put it in con- 

 dition to supply all the water needed 

 for irrigation purposes. The ditch is 

 the third project of A. T. Soule, the 

 Rochester promoter, which has been 

 revived in Dodge City in the last few 

 years. It was in 1883-1886 that Soule 

 dreamed of the future part Dodge 

 City was to play in the southwest, 

 and started the enterprises which were 

 to struggle for thirty years before 

 being brought to full development. 



Nevada 



There are now open for entry in 

 the Truckee-Carson project, including 

 the lands opened by the public notice 

 of February 11, 1916, about 115 farm 

 units comprising a total of approxi- 

 mately 6,000 acres of irrigable land. 

 These lands are all scattered among 

 the irrigated farms and are adjacent 

 to constructed canals from which a 

 water supply may be had during the 

 season of 1916. Many of these units 

 are very desirable locations as may be 

 readily determined from the charac- 

 ter of the cultivated farms which ad- 

 join them. 



The annual Indian appropriation 

 bill has been reported by the senate 

 committee with $3,000,000 added to 

 the total of $9,000,000 carried by the 

 measure as it passed the house. In- 

 creases include $900,000 for irrigation 

 projects on Montana Indian lands, 

 $275,000 for common schools in Okla- 

 homa Indian districts, and $175,000 

 for an irrigation project on the Gila 

 river near Florence, Ariz. 



The secretary of the interior, Frank- 

 lin K. Lane, has officially announced 

 the opening of lands in the Carson- 

 Truckee project, which comprises 55 

 public land farm units of an acreage 

 of 2,842 and 2,897 acres of privately 

 owned lands, which are made subject 

 to water rights regulation. 



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